Le Feuilletage #8 | Chambre 208 with Jean-Michel André

On August 5, 1983, Jean-Michel André’s father was murdered along with six other people in a hotel in Avignon. They were on vacation together. The case was never clearly solved, but the investigation did reveal a motive: an attempted hold-up by “small-time” criminals that degenerated into carnage.
Chambre 207 is in the vein of autofiction, based on a memory reinvented in the wake of this childhood trauma. Jean-Michel André travels in the footsteps of lost memories. He mixes his photographs with elements of investigation, archives and family objects, to compose a collection that questions memory, mourning and reparation.

The book, in A4 format – that of the investigation files – is conceived as a visual essay that is as much about reconstitution as reconstruction.

Meeting in French, followed by signing session.
Paid admission. Tickets available via online ticketing.

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Inaugurated in June 2023, Le Feuilletage is an event format proposed by the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, dedicated to photography books.
Le Feuilletage invites a photographer to look back at the genesis of one of his or her books, from the selection of images to the layout and sequencing.

With the support of L’INAPERÇU.